Statutes > Iowa Statutes > Title 3 - Public Services and Regulation > Subtitle 2 - Employment Services > CHAPTER 91E - NON=ENGLISH SPEAKING EMPLOYEES > 91E.2 - NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS.

91E.2 - NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS.

        91E.2  NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYER
      OBLIGATIONS.
         If more than ten percent of an employer's employees are
      non-English speaking and speak the same non-English language, the
      employer shall provide all of the following:
         1. a.  An interpreter available at the work site for each
      shift during which non-English speaking employees are employed.
         b.  If a Spanish-speaking interpreter is needed, the employer
      shall select an interpreter from a list of interpreters developed by
      the department of workforce development, drawn from the commission of
      Latino affairs' statewide list of interpreters qualified to serve
      Iowa courts and administrative agencies.
         2.  A person employed by the employer whose primary responsibility
      is to serve as a referral agent to community services.
         Section History: Recent Form
         90 Acts, ch 1134, §3; 96 Acts, ch 1186, § 23; 2008 Acts, ch 1032,
      § 201